CVE-2026-2243CWE-125

CVE-2026-2243

Medium · published February 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A flaw was found in QEMU. A specially crafted VMDK image could trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, potentially leading to a 12-byte leak of sensitive information or a denial of service condition (DoS).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00133 · 2.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read
Published
2026-02-19T23:25Z
References (2)
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2243 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440934 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 FEB 17:47Z
    Qemu-kvm: heap buffer out-of-bounds read in vmdk compressed grain parsing
    cvelistv5